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Kiki's Delivery Service birthday party

Beginning at UMPI and ending at the Houlton, ME rest stop

Maine State Solar System Model

Maine Solar System Model

Visited 8/31/12 along Route 1, Aroostook County, Maine

Happy At One Hundred: Emotive Portraits of Centenarians Michael Zhang, petapixel.com

For his project titled Jahrhundertmensch, German photographer Karsten Thormaehlen shot portraits of elderly men and women who have reached the ripe old age of 100, also known as a “centenarian“. In 2009, the UN estimated th…

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Actual overheard chitchat before last night's presidential address

Boehner: Seven birdies, five bogies.

Biden: You’re kidding me!

Boehner: I missed a 4-foot straight-on birdie on the last hole.

Biden: Whoa!

Boehner: So, the next day, I shoot an 86! Ha, ha, ha!

Biden: That’s incredible.

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Wow. The whole piece I think is worth a read. We have to have more respect for one another if we have any hope of moving forward.

#John Boehner #Joe Biden #golf #out-of-touchness

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By placing colored felt-tip pens in the pockets of the dress the colored ink bleeds into the fabric and creates polka-dots by Fernando Brizio

#art

Blueberry barrens at sunset

Orland, ME

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orientaltiger:

Rainbow Eucalyptus, is the only species of eucalyptus that grows in the northern hemisphere and is normally grown for its pulpwood, used to create white paper. But why does it look like it’s been painted? The secret behind the Rainbow Eucalyptus is that the trees shed multiple patches of bark every year, but not at the same time. As the patches are gone, the green inner bark is exposed, and as it matures it turns bluish, then orange, purple and maroon. This creates the rainbow effect.